"The reason for great distress is the..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.”

“Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.”

“That which shrinks must first expand.”

“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.”

“A dying man can do nothing easy.”

“Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.”

“Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This isthe consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.”

“The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.”

“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”